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Four hundred years ago Tiamat tossed the Lufenian civilization into ruin, with only a village, a single airship, and her personal haunt left standing. With the Wind Crystal under her control, the wind itself began to die down.

As the first fiend to awaken, she is the most powerful of the Four Fiends, and uses several powerful attacks. A younger version of Tiamat appears on the fourth basement of the Chaos Shrine 2000 years in the past, where she is slightly stronger. Once she is defeated she dies again, preventing her from ever journeying to the future and wreaking havoc.

Non-elemental magic, such as Flare and Holy, would be the best to use given her resistances. It is a good idea to cast the Nul- line of spells or use Curtains to shield against her party-wide elemental attacks. If a party member is poisoned, it is probably a better idea for the party's White Wizard to keep using Healara to cure the physical damage instead of wasting turns using Poisona.

Her weaknesses mean that she can be instantly killed either by petrifying or poisoning her. Possible spells include Scourge (can be cast with Razer) or Break. In the Dawn of Souls and future remakes, a Cockatrice Claw can be used in place of the Break spell.

Tiamat is fought again in the Chaos Shrine of the past, along with the other fiends, so she cannot summon Garland to the past time to form the loop that created Chaos.

She loses her weaknesses and is now more powerful. She has gained the use of magical spells, which she chooses to use 50% of the time. Her skills and skill cycle remain the same as before but are used less often (25% of the time). Her spell cycle is:

[view·edit·purge]Tiamat is a primordial goddess of the ocean in Mesopotamian religion. The game Dungeons & Dragons has Tiamat as a chromatic dragon, the Queen of the Evil Dragons, and as such the opposing deity to Bahamut, who is a platinum dragon and the King of Benevolent Dragons.

Tiamat in Final Fantasy refers to the deity of the same name from Dungeons & Dragons, who is depicted as a villainous, five-headed dragon. Both are named after the ancient monster from Ancient Mesopotamian religion, who is often said to be the mother of dragons. Many elements in the original Final Fantasy are lifted from the Dungeons & Dragons.